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Tinubu said this when he hosted the leadership of the Senate to a dinner to break the Ramadan fast at the State House on Thursday in Abuja. He said that the military would continue to enjoy the support of his administration in neutralising security threats across the country. “Our armed …

Security Council expected to vote on Friday on US-drafted ceasefire resolution with talks to continue in Qatar. The United Nations Security Council is expected to vote as soon as Friday on a United States-drafted resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza as the European Union called for a “humanitarian pause”, …

One of Israel’s longest hospital raids of the Gaza war stretched into a fourth day on Thursday, as the military said that it had killed dozens of people it described as terrorists in the previous 24 hours in its operation at Al-Shifa Hospital. Israel has staged a series of raids …

Opinion by Ayodele Odusola (harare, zimbabwe) Thursday, March 21, 2024 Inter Press Service HARARE, Zimbabwe, Mar 21 (IPS) – This year’s UNDP Global Human Development Report (HDR) marks a dramatic shift away from the cautious optimism espoused in the HDR just four years ago: despite reaching a new high, the Global …

Nadeem, a British-Kenyan citizen, was detained alongside the company’s Head of Financial Crime Compliance and Investigations Team, Tigran Gambaryan, upon arrival in Nigeria on February 26, 2024, for a scheduled meeting with the Federal Government. On Tuesday, March 19, 2024, the two Binance executives appeared in a Federal High Court …

NewsFeed A group of women shaved their heads in solidarity with Palestinian women in Gaza, in a protest outside the UK’s Houses of Parliament. The protesters said many Palestinian women have been shaving their own hair due to the lack of water to wash with or even drink. Published On …

Russian missiles streaked into Kyiv early Thursday in the biggest assault on the Ukrainian capital in weeks, injuring at least 10 people and damaging several residential buildings and industrial facilities, according to local officials. Serhii Popko, the head of the city military administration, said air defense systems in and around …

On International Women’s Day on Mar. 8, thousands of Chilean women of all ages took to Santiago’s central Alameda avenue to demonstrate peacefully for several hours and turn the Chilean capital into a stage for protest and demands for their rights. Some of them were women caregivers accompanied by dependent …

The First Lady stated this when she received the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Amina Mohammed, in her office at the State House in Abuja on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. She argued that “we can grow our food,” adding, “everybody should grow something”. She also explained that the …

The UN says about 62 million tonnes of e-waste was generated in 2022. UN agencies have warned in a new report that waste from electronics is piling up worldwide while recycling rates remain low and are likely to fall even further. The agencies were referring to “e-waste,” which is defined …